SNM Horror Magazine
If You Build A Mausoleum...The Dead Will Come!
READERS GUESTBOOK
Let Your Pen Gently Drip Blood and Leave Your Mark
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Glad to see the Reader's Guestbook comments working again. People were having trouble posting and we had problems with this in the recent past. Turns out this application features captiva codes that are annoying, but we can't remove i, nor did we put them there. Some of you may be familiar with these from the voting polls. They are to block spammers.
Anyway, great job with the stories, the bar has been raised once again with double the amount of subs, making it twice as hard to get accepted into the issue, so congrats to those who did. We had 64 subs altogether and only 8 made the cut. Ther were actuially more, but they didn't follow the guidelines or were sent in error as far as the theme, so we didn't count them, only the 64 we reviewed.
So just remember, if you are posting longer comments here, copy and paste them in case you enter the wroing code so you don't have to type them all over again!!!
Darkest,
SNM
Like the stories this month, especially SOTM and "Where there's Smoke" and "The Man that didn't Belong". Great job!
Great new issue - two months is a long time to wait! Enjoyed the story of the month - After the Avalanche - suitably horrific ending. And also enjoyed The Man Who Didn't Belong. Really interesting and unusual them this month.
congrats Vincenzo! Your hard work towards your craft has definitely paid off. Well done and best of luck in your future!
-J. Barnes
The support is appreciated! It is truly an honor to have one of my stories included in an anthology that features the talent and originality of so many great authors. The SNM community has made me a better writer by raising the bar every month!
I would just like to congratulate Vincenzo Bilof on winning Author of the Year.
Great Job!
BMG
Hi!
I love this site! It has encouraged me to follow my dreams.
I have written short stories. I need some help with taking the next step... how do you go from writing short stories to a novel length book? Is a novel a series of short stories? Where do you start? Do you create your characters first and the story just develops from there, or, do you have a main theme and create the characters to suit the story?
Signed,
Clueless in California 
Seasons beatings and a black and blue New Year everyone. Well it's been a real ghost town here on the reader's guestbook and I was wondering what was happening. Someone finally brought to my attention that they were unable to post comments and gave up. I checked with the site hosting company and they finally fixed it, so let's get some comments going again on the stories, poems and release of the new Bonded By Blood anthology or just thoughts in general about the mag.
Again, there will be no January issue. We will see you in February for the first 2012 issue called February Fear Factor. The new 2012 themes are posted on the home and submissions page. Happy holidays everyone!
SNM
On Halloween night... read the SOTM... very impressive. Enjoyed the irony and the overall tone of the story. Looking forward to reading the rest of the issue. I normally despise vampire stories... I was very entertained by this month's selection! Looking forward to reading more.
Okay, maybe the Goth Girls page caters to my tastes and the males who visit the site but diversity makes us interesting and controversy keeps us politically incorrect and damn proud of it. But the main point you illustrated is, you've been reading the stories for two years and we appreciate that, and you've had no need to go the site to view the Goth Girls page until I made mention of it.
As far as us being a men's website, no. We also employ female staff to help our decision making process on the story selection so that we cater to both male and females so that the stories aren't just slanted to my likes because I own the mag. According to my stats, 60% of our members are women who tend to read in general more than men. Maybe men need more persuision to come to the site? Either way that page generates a ton of hits. We are an adult website, not appropriate for children, and as such our content is more rated "R" type of material, which is why we have the disclaimer on the homepage. I guess I tend to cater to arts that darken people's daydreams and illuminates their nightmares.
Either way, censorship sucks and the hosting company demonstarted bad business by reacting to it the way they did. The Goth Girls page has been up and running for 3 years and they only notice it now and can't email me to say there was a problem and I need to rectify it by "x" day.
On the porn issue, I'd agree with you if you were correct but, if it doesn't display actual nudity, just the suggestion of nudity, it's not porn. Yes, some models appear in sexually seductive poses, but the display or impression of human sexuality is neither tabboo nor porn, it goes to imagination. Many of the models design their own outfits, especially the goth attire, others are aspiring models that pursue movie careers, it's not really for us to judge their livelihood in how they support themselves, especially in today's more liberated world. This would be censorship on my part which violates the first amendent rights in freedom of speech. Permission to speak freely is what we take pride in, which is why I allowed the post and didn't delete it. You are entitled to your opinion and hopefully, in your mind, that's what keeps us interesting for you and keeps you coming back here. Just because I don't agree with your summarization of porn doesn't make my opinion better than yours, nor does it invalidate your opinion.
Darkest Wishes,
SNM
Am I an Inquisitor? I hope not. I come on here to read the stories. I wasn't even aware of the porn until I read the email SNM sent out saying they were shut down for a week b/c the web-hosting company claimed they were posting porn. So I thought I'd look to see what all the fuss was about and yep, that was porn alright. I don't have a problem with it. I just find it humorous that SNM says no, it's art, as in "Tonight I'm taking my wife to the strip club and I'm going to tell her we're there to see art'...lol. It's a bit of a stretch. I've been coming on here to read the short stories for two years and I never even knew about the T&A pictures so I disagree with SNM's statement that Goth Girls is what keeps people on the site. Sucks that the web-hosting company doesn't approve and I agree they should have sent a notice instead of just shutting it down, but I'm glad the website is back up. I'm starting to get the impression that you all think I'm a guy? This isn't a men's website is it? When I said you were all a bunch of perverts I was saying it in jest. I wasn't trying to offend anyone. Forgive me. You're all a bunch of men on this site. 
I'm so glad that the website has returned. I missed the stories! While I don't visit the site for truly alluring Gothgirls, I do have one question for the Inquisitors - what are THEY doing looking at what THEY consider to be pornographic? Here's an old ethic to think upon: defend your neighbor's freedom against THEM or someday THEY will come for you as well. Live and let live...
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